And Kim wrote in to let me know "The German use of B-17s effectively made her the 3rd largest operator of that type, after USA and Great Britain. They were mainly used for teaching fighter pilots which angles the bomber's gunners couldn't cover. During WW2 a good number of B-17s landed in neutral Switzerland and Sweden, where they too were put to use by the local air forces."
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Macin sent me links to a couple webpages that fill in information about the German use of captured B 17s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampfgeschwader_200 about a secret wing of the Lufftwaffe, the 200. A book was written about the 200 Geoffrey Thomas: KG200: Luftwaffe’s Most Secret Squadron, Hikoki Publications, August 2004, ISBN 1902109333
and http://www.2worldwar2.com/kg200.htm
KG 200 was a unique unit, which operated a wide variety of aircraft–from the Blohm und Voss Bv-222 Wiking (the largest flying boat of the era) to the Junkers Ju-52, Ju-90, Ju-290 and Ju-188, the Heinkel He-111, and even captured British, Russian, and American aircraft such as the Consolidated B-24 Liberator and the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. The majority of the captured allied aircraft were repaired, repaired, maintained and flown by the Zirkus Rosarius
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Force-landed at a Luftwaffe airfield in France on Feb. 4,1944. Repaired and flown by KG200 as A3+KB. She was recaptured at Salsburg,Austria in May 1945.
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